News Hound Ady & Flo

It's a big, wide world out there, as I'm finding out in my first few weeks on this planet.

There are so many things to learn and remember. Like: Sit, come, stay, no, no, and no.

I like the sound of 'good Flo” though. Especially when I visit outside to that special corner of the lawn and get told 'Good Flo.” I know, I am always very pleased with it!

I guess that when I go outside for visits to the corner of the lawn, it could be called 'good indoor-outdoor flo.”

My first session with The Dog Trainer, Wendy Graydon. Try telling her dogs love their owners!

Meanwhile the training has been ‘consistent and persistent', as my favourite teacher, Wendy Graydon the Dog Trainer puts it. She and the boss are happily ‘agreeing to disagree' over Wendy's assertion that 'dogs don't love their people.”

She reckons dogs merely regard people as a part of the pack and it's important for the dog to understand they are subservient to the dominant members of that pack – the people. The minute dogs think they are dominant, such as sleeping in the same bed or going through the doorway first, then there's going to be disciplinary troubles. Take note, Ady!

Oooh, that's a lot of everyone to take in, especially the boss. He's always known it, but actually walking the talk is another thing. Besides, who can resist my innocence and cuteness?

As for the dog love theory, the boss and I will keep that to ourselves. Let's just call it, Puppy Love. Crikey, Donny Osmond will be turning in his grave, and he's not even dead yet.

My Ziwipeak diet is keeping me in top condition, according to Wendy.

Just have to get through the health check with Joerg from Mount Mobile Vets this week and that will mean I'm able to be a bit more sociable with all my shots up to date. And I don't mean up the date, as he tends to do with that thermometer.

In other news, I've reached a Memorandum of Understanding with Chadwick.

If by chance we meet through the fence, the cat has agreed to walk away and I've agreed to find out how to spell memorandum. Other than that, there's not much understanding. I guess that relationship will stay that way, while he is 12 kg and I am 7. Things may change in a few months when I am 30kg and running at 35km/h with no brakes.

Meanwhile, Ady has been keen to test drive all my new puppy toys, and is particularly taken with the quacking duck and Mr Chicken, rated the world's most annoying toy. That claim is backed up by most of downtown Tauranga. My chews have mysteriously disappeared however.

Now I wonder where they could be. Apparently I am not allowed her bone, or to get to close to her food bowl. Well just wait a few months.

Ady reckons it's great having a little Flo around, although the pup teeth are a little sharp on her stubby excuse for a tail though, but we are going to have some fun times together.
Take it easy this weekend and go the ABs. Ady, the boss and I will be glued to the wide screen, and we will leave the sorry excuse for a big screen on The Strand to others.

Cheers all and have fun. From Ady and Flo.

Training by Wendy Graydon, The Dog Trainer. 0210 700 111
Repairs and Maintenance: The Mobile Vet 0800 VETCALL
Sustenance: Ziwipeak.
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